Insurgents suspected to be a faction of ISWAP have ambushed Borno government officials convoy along Monguno / Baga axis in the northern part of the state on Friday morning, sources said.
Daily Trust learnt that, the incident occurred at about 11:30 am after Krus Kuwa General in Kukawa local government area of the state where an unverified number of people were said to have been injured.
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Security sources blamed factions loyal to ISWAP fighters for the attack.
“It was repelled accordingly but we suspects ISWAP behind the attack on the convoys of state officials on assignment to resettle Baga IDPs to their ancestral homes,” a security source said.
Another source said the attacked happened some kilometers away from the Multinational Joint Task Force headquarters in Baga (MJTF), adding that the injured persons have been evacuated from the scene to Monguno general hospital.
The casualty figure could not be ascertained as at the time of writing this report.
Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno state had sometime in July been attacked around the same axis by the insurgents on his way from Baga.
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